| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | CHEMICAL REACTIVITY AND BIOAVAILABILITY |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Alexander J.B. Zehnder (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
"Where Do the Bugs Get their Genes From" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Jerry Schnoor (University of Iowa)
"Phytoremediation: Unlocking the Potential for Plants to Clean the Environment" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | REACTION MECHANISMS |
| Discussion Leader: Rene Schwarzenbach (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | William Arnold (University of Minnesota)
"Reduction of organic pollutants at surfaces: herbicides, microscopic studies, and organometallics" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Michelle M. Scherer (University of Iowa)
"Surface-Bound Ferrous Iron As A Reductant in Subsurface Soils" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | David L. Sedlak (University of California - Berkeley)
"N-Nitrosodimethylamine: The Unexpected Disinfection Byproduct" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | HETEROGENEOUS PARTICLES |
| Discussion Leader: Charles O'Melia (Johns Hopkins University) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Menachem Elimelech (Yale University)
"Role of Geochemical Heterogeneity in the Transport of Colloids and Microbial Pathogens in Subsurface Environments" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Rubin Kretzschmar (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
"Metal Binding by Heterogeneous Mineral-Organic Particles" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ARSENIC AND SELENIUM CYCLING |
| Discussion Leader: George Helz (University of Maryland) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | William Adams (Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation)
"Selenium Bioaccumulation, Toxicity, and Cycling in Aquatic Systems" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Kevin Farley (Manhattan College)
"Modeling Arsenic Cycling in Lakes and Reservoirs" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Scott Fendorf (Stanford University)
"Arsenic Dynamics within Sulfidic Environments" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | MERCURY CYCLING |
| Discussion Leader: Thomas D. Atkeson (Florida Department of Environmental Protection) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Steven Lindberg (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
"Pondering Heretical Notions about the Mercury Cycle: Is Halogen Oxidation a Short Circuit in the Mercury Cycle? Is the Arctic Really a Missing Sink? And What's the Story on this Polar Sunrise Thing, Anyhow?" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | David Krabbenhoft (U.S. Geological Survey)
"Mercury Cycling in the Aquatic Environment: What We Think We Know and What We Don't Know" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | FRONTIERS IN BIOGEOCHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Janet G. Hering (California Institute of Technology) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Bernhard Wehrli (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
"Bioavailability at the micrometer scale: Tracing biogeochemical processes with in-situ sensors" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Bettina Voelker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"A Tale of Two Transients: Roles of Aqueous Superoxide and Hydroxyl Radicals in Environmental Redox Processes" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | John Tossell (University of Maryland)
"Heavy Metal Complexes in Solution: Theoretical Studies" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PAHS EXPOSURE AND EFFECTS |
| Discussion Leader: Phillip Gschwend (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | David Mount (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
"Predicting Biological Response to PAHs in the Aquatic Environment" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Rebecca Dickhut (Virginia Institute of Marine Science)
"From Air to Mud: PAH Transport and Fate in the Coastal Zone" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | EMERGING CHEMICALS OF CONCERN |
| Discussion Leader: Jennifer A. Field (Oregon State University) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Ronald A. Hites (Indiana University)
"Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether Flame Retardants in the Environment" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Derek Muir (National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada)
"New, Emerging POPs - Challenges for Environmental Chemists" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Joop Hermens (Utrecht University)
"The Concept of Freely Dissolved Concentration and Concentration at the Target: Its Relevance in Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, and
Measurement Techniques" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | EVENING SESSION |
| Discussion Leader: Deborah Swackhamer (University of Minnesota) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | William Glaze (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"Reflections on scholarly publishing, reviewing and editing" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Selected Poster Presentations |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
